All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So remember it, lad. If your head thinks up mischief, your backside's going to pay for it. Brian Fraser to young Jamie — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many. — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great. — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Through every right and every wrong thing I've done, the wrong ones are the most fun doing. — Amarjeet Das Copy Share Image
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief; and I think no sensible… — John Bright Copy Share Image
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
